Castell de la Fosca

Castell de la Fosca (Punta del Castell) is an Iberian oppidum on a rocky promontory near Palamos on the Costa Brava, Catalonia. Inhabited from the 6th century BC to the 1st century BC by the Indigetes people, it reached peak growth in the 4th-3rd centuries BC as a fortified settlement with terraced houses. The entrance was flanked by two square towers, and remains include streets, grain silos, water cisterns, and a possible temple. Commercially linked to the Greek colony of Empuries, excavations uncovered Campanian ceramics and a lead sheet with an Iberian inscription -- the largest found in Catalonia. Declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest in 1996.